Garment-hanger.



J. A. SHEA.

GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED JULYlo, 1912A z m.. 3 C w .,I. .W m 9 w w m 1 u Z a 2,WN t w uw JOHN A. SHEA, OF WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

Application filed July 10, 1912. Serial No. 708,716.

T0 all wim/m, t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. Sinai, citizen of the United States,residing at lVilkes- Barre, in the county of Luzerne and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inChu-mentl-langers, of which the following a specification.

This invention relates to garment hangers and more particularly to animprovement in hangers such as are arranged within garment display casesemployed in clothing stores for the purpose of displaying coats, skirts,jackets, and other articles of wearing apparel. Such hangers ordinarilyinclude as an essential feature a bar which is slidably supportedbeneath the top of the display case and with which are to be engaged thehooks of ordinary coat or skirt hangers. In exhibiting garments to acustomer', it is at present customary for the clerk to remove one ormore of the garments and the hangers therefor from this rod or bar andlay the garment upon a table or counter', and where a number of garmentsmust be shown, or where a number of clerks are removing garments at thesame time from a single display case, it almost invariably happens thatthe garments are piled promiscuously upon one another regardless of thesize, style, or other distinctive characteristics. It also notinfrequently happens that a customer after looking at a number' ofgarments will decide upon purchasing the first or second one shown andit is then necessary for the salesman to search through the entire pileof garments upon the table or counter in order to locate the onedesired. Not only does this result in the garments becoming mussed andrumpled. but with certain styles of hangers they are liable to be torn,unless carefully pulled from the pile. .Furthermore, considerable timeis lost and trouble occasioned by this method of displaying thegarments. Aside from the disadvantages mentioned above, a customercannot, with any degree of satisfaction examine a garment which isspread out upon a table among numerous other garments in a more or lessrumpled state.

The present invention therefore aims to provide a hanger of the classmentioned with an auxiliary hanger rod which may be extended in advanceof the main hanger rod and will be adapted to support the garments to bedisplayed in properly draped position,

and in such manner that they may be conveniently and satisfactorilyexamined.

For a full runlerstanding of the invention reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawing, in wh ich Figure l is aperspective view of a hanger constructed in accordance with the presentinvention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the forward portion ot' the hangerillustrating the manner in which the auxiliary hanger is mounted and isto be extended when the door ot the case in which the device is arranged, is open. Fig. 3 is a detail vertical longitudinal sectional viewthrough the hanger embodying the present invention. Fig. 4l is avertical transverse sectional view on the line lr-il of Fig. 3.

Corresjjionding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescriptioil and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawingby the same reference characters.

ln the drawing, the reference character A indicates in general the topof a display case and B the hinged door thereof. This case and its doormay he or any ordinary form. Arranged upon the under side of the top ofthe casing A is a guide 1 in which is mounted a slide 2, the guidehaving oppositely arranged channels 3, and the slide 2 having flanges twhich slidably fit in the said channels. A bracket 5 projects downwardlyfrom the rear end of the slide 2 and a head (3 is arranged at theforward end of the said slide. A hanger rod 7 is secured at its rear endto the bracket 5 and at its other end to the head (i and with this rodmay be engaged the hooks 8 of the ordinary coat and skirt hangers 9 uponwhich the garments to be displayed may be draped. The head 6 is providedwith a downwardly projecting handle 10 which may be grasped for thepurpose of sliding the slide and the hanger rod 7 supported thereby,outwardly and inwardly, as may be desired. The construction andarrangement of parts so described does not dil'er materially from t-heordinary types of such devices now in general use, and it will beapparent that it possesses the very disadvantages above mentioned.

The auxiliary hanger device embodying the present invention and which isdesigned to overcome the disadvantages pointed out above will now bedescribed.

The device consists essentially of a bracket formed of two members, oneof which consists of a curved plate 11 provided at one end with asemi-cylindrical sleeve 12 and at its other end with a semi-cylindricalsleeve 13. The other member of the bracket consists of a plate 141curved to conform to the curvature of the plate 11 and provided at oneend with a semi-cylindrical sleeve portion 15 and at its other end witha sleeve portion 16. The convex side of the plate 1d is disposed againstthe concaved side of the plate 11, in assembling the plate and bracketwith the sleeves 12 and 15 and the sleeve portions 13 and 16 matching,respectively, and the sections are held in assembled relation by meansof bolts 17 which are secured through the plates 11 and 14 and have nuts18 threaded upon them. The sleeve sections 13 and 16 of the bracketembrace the forward end-portion of the hanger rod 7 and the sleeveportion 16 is formed with spaced lugs 19 which engage with shoulders 2Oformed at the junction of the upper end of the handle 10 with the head6, the bracket being in this manner supported against turning movementupon the said hanger rod 7. By referring to Figs. 1 and 11 of thedrawing it will be observed that the plates 11 and 14C extend upwardlyand laterally from the sleeve portions 13 and 16 and that as aconsequence the sleeve which is formed by the matching sleeve portions12 and 15 is located above and to one side of the forward end of thehanger rod 7. This last mentioned sleeve is designed to slidably supportthe auxiliary hanger rod of the device.V This rod is indicated by thenumeral 2O and as stated is slidably fitted between Vt-he sleeveportions 12 and 15, in a manner clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing.At one end of the rod 21 there is provided a head .22 which ispreferably circular in form and of a diameter slightly greaterthan thesleeve in which the rod 21 is slidably fitted. Before proceeding to adescription of the means provided for automatically extending the rodwhen the door of the display case is open, it may be stated, that therod 21 may be slid outwardly to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 ofthe drawing and in order that it may be held in this extended position,there is provided a leaf spring catch 23 which is secured as at 24C tothe upper side of the sleeve in which the rod is fitted, and has itsfree portion bent to form a socket 25 and an upwardly curved lip 26located at the extremity of its said free portion. When the rod 21 isslid forwardly to bring the head 22 against the rear end of the sleeve,the periphery of the head will ride beneath the free portion of thecatch 23 and will engage in the socket 25, whereupon the rod will beheld extended and in position to support such of the hangers 9 as havebeen removed from the rod. 7.

The means above mentioned and provided for the purpose of automaticallysliding the rod forwardly when the door B is swung to ouen position,consists of a suction cup 27 which is secured at the forward end of therod 21 by means of a screw 28 the head of which is embedded in the neckof the cup., the concaved side of the cup being presented forwardly. Byreferring to Fig. 2 of the drawing it will be apparent that when thedoor is closed its inner face will strike against the cup 27 whereuponthe cup will adhere to the door and that when the door is swung to openposition, a forward pull will be exerted upon the rod thereby slidingthe same forwardly to about the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of thedrawing. he cup 27 will, of course, disengage from the door when the rodhas been fully extended.

By referring to Fig. 3 of t-he drawing it will be noted that the fcrwardend port-ion of the rod 21 is threaded, as indicated at 29 and acircular head'30 is formed axially with an opening 31, the wall of whichis l threaded and this head is adjustably fitted onto the end of the rod21 andserves as an abutment to limit the sliding movement of the rod 21by striking against the forward end of the sleeve in which this rod isslidably mounted. it will be apparent that by adjusting this head 30,the forward end of the rod, or more specifically, the cup 27 vmay becaused to lie a greater or less distance in advance of the head 6 whenthe rod is slid inwardly to the fullest extent so that the cup may, byadjusting the head 30, be adjusted toward or from the inner face of thedoor when the latter is in closed position, so as to insure of itsproper engagement with the door. This head 30 also serves as a means toprevent the hangers 9 sliding ofi' from the rod 21 while the garmentsare being inspected. ln order that the head will not mar any portion ofthe case which may Y come in contact therewith, for .example when thedevice is applied to or employed in connection with a revolving hanger,the head 30 is formed peripherally with a groove 32 in which is seated asoft rubber ring 33.

In order that the salesman or saleslady may readily ascertain the sizeof the garment-s supported by the device, the convex face of the plate11 is formed with depressions 311 in each of which is disposed a disk 35having printed or otherwise marked thereon the size of the garment andthese depressions are preferably located as illustra-ted in Fig. 1 ofthe drawing.

Having thus described the invention what an auxiliary hanger rodslidably mounted upon the bracket.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a slidablesupport ineluding a relatively iixed hanger rod, of a bracket includinga sleeve portion clamped to the said rod, means for holding the sleeveportion against turning upon the rod, and an auxiliary hanger rodslidably mounted upon the bracket, the auxiliary rod being oi'l'set withrelation to the first mentioned hanger rod.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with a supportincludingr a relatively fixed hanger rod, of a bracket fixed to thesupport upon the rod and including assembled sections, each consistingof a curved plate having a sleeve portion at each ot' its ends, thesections being assembled with the sleeve portions matching, meanssecuring the sections `in assembled relation with the sleeve sections atone end of each JOHN A. SHEA. [1.. s]

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